The editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jr has said that living with former President Jerry John Rawlings is as difficult as living with COVID-19.
According to the seasoned journalist, Mr Rawlings is lucky to be a former President of Ghana, hence just like COVID-19, the nation has learned to live with his ills.
“With all the difficulties and challenges, whether we like it or not, the irony of history is, you have become President under the Fourth Republican Constitution. You have left office but the state is looking after you, caring for you. Whether we like it or not, we have to live with it, the same way we’re going to have to live with COVID till eternity; we’re living with you.”
Kweku Baako, was contributing to Peace FM’s ‘kokrokoo’ show on Wednesday, July 16, 2020.
As some people are pining for Mr Rawlings’ book to be published, Mr Baako indicates he must not “distort” anything.
“My advice to him is he should be very careful. If I were him, I would concentrate on the book he says he’s writing and put some of these things in there, even the untruth. But if he’s not careful, even before the book comes out; people will expose him left, right and centre.
“What is he seeking to do? To rewrite what? To distort what? I don’t get him.”
He pointed out that Mr Rwalings must be “careful” he doesn’t step on a “landmine.”
Mr Baako has, therefore, cautioned the former President to desist from using lies to justify his actions. He offered an advice to Mr. Rawlings saying, he should take a sober reflection and count the number of his friends and associates who have distanced themselves from him.
Mr. Baako was incessant that, the former President cannot portray himself as a saint and that there is categorically something wrong with him which his own friends discovered and decided to alienate him.
“He should ask himself why; almost all of them. The fault must be with him not with all the rest that they have now lost touch with him. He can’t be the only Saint around. All the people that have associated with him politically, almost all of them; he’s fallen out with them and the stories he tells is not consistent. It’s not coherent.”
This comes as a result of Mr Rawlings granting an interview to Asaase Radio. In the said interview, Mr Rawlings indicated he can’t “forgive” the people he has fell out with. The former President said to his interviewer, the veteran journalist Kweku Sekyi-Addo that, he can’t forgive Kweku Baako Jr in particular because of the untruths he has been saying about him in the media
Mr Baako, who was once jailed under the Provisional Nation Defense Council, a junta which Mr Rawlings was Chairman, has also retorted that most of the former President’s justifications are “lies.” The junta was in power for more than a decade.
